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Nicht eine weitere slawische Geliebte. Erotik und Erlösung in Franz Schamanns mährischer Dorfgeschichte Veruna (1902)
| Title in English | Not yet Another Slavic Lover. Erotic and Redemption in the Short Story Veruna (1902) by Franz Schamann |
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Literatur als Erotik: Beispiele aus Österreich. Anlässlich der Jahrestagung der Franz Werfel-StipendiatInnen am 27.-29. April 2017 in Wien |
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| Keywords | German literature; Moravia; Brno; naturalism; village story; slavic lover; national stereotyping |
| Description | Ever since Paul Eisner's essay Milenky (The Female Lovers, 1930), the Slavic lovers in German literature from Bohemia and Moravia have been regarded as a type in philological discourses. Unlike Eisner, however, it is not the static of this type that is emphasized today, but the discursive movements that take place in the context of the type. The Slavic lover is no longer seen as compensation for the culturally given deficits of the Bohemian/Moravian Germans, but as a discursive "machine" which is updated every time it comes into operation. The ‚update‘ this type goes throug in the village story "Veruna" by the Brno naturalist Franz Schamann (1876-1909) is of particular interest because the type here acquires a redemptive function, which only later - with the "Moravian expressionists" Ernst Weiss and Hermann Ungar as well as in Robert Musil's "Tonka" - becomes one of its core characteristics. |
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